Improvement in paper shutters for windows



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W. HIPKINS. Paper-Shutter for Windows.

No. 199,291 Patented 1an.15,1s7s.

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UNITED STATES, PATENT OEEIOE.

lWILLIAM HIPHINs, on BELLAIEE, OHIO, AssIeNon OF OIIE-FOUMH His RIGHT To HENRY D. MEEx, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT |N- PAPER-SHUTTERS FOR WINDOWS.l

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,291, dated January l5, 1878; application filed September 3, 1877. i

to make and use thesame, reference being had4 to the accompanying drawings, and to let# ters of reference marked thereon, which form apart of this specification.

The invention consists in the manufacture of blinds or inside shutters for the windows of houses, frompaper, the constructions necessaryA to carry out the invention being hereinafter described.

I construct the parts of the 'shutters of paper, prepared by any approved' process suitable to such purpose, and preferably waterproofed. I cover the .paper shutter with a thin paper or other material, bearing the design of panel, &c., printed or stamped thereon, or the whole part may be molded with sunk panels, and covered or thin paper molding may be veneered on.

The panels may be provided with fixed slats, orwith movable slats pivoted in the stilesof the part-s, and operated by a regulating-strip attached to the slats by iiexible hinges of fabric, as hereinafter described.

The panels, ordinarily two, composing each part are jointed by flexible hinges of fabric, which, when neatly executed, form a perfect hinge and close `joint. These joined panels are hinged, in a similar manner, to jamb-pieces for attachment to the jambs, which pieces are wide or narrow to snit different styles of win` dows, and are so made with reference to the folding of the shutters, as hereinafter set forth.

At the point of junction of the shutter parts in the center line ofthe window they are provided with rabbets to close the joint and shut out theview, and to prevent the shutter from springing or'warping.

The jamb-pieces can also be applied upon the surface of the architrave, where the j amb is too shallow to receive the wooden shutter now in use, which is an important advantage, permitting of the application of inside shutters to any house without alteration of the windows.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the inside of a'window, the paneled inside shutters being made of paper; Fig. 2, a detail elevationof one of the shutter parts, the outer coveringbeing removed and the fabric hinge laid bare; Fig. 3, a' section of Fig. 2, with' and Without the paper or other covering; Fig. 4, a cross-section of shutterjamb piece on the outside of the architrave; Fig. 5, a similar section, showing the shutterjamb piece upon the jamb; Fig. 6, a detail of one of the leaf sides of the tongued fabric hinge; Fig. 7, aface viewpof one of the panels, the broken portion showing the vmethod of pivoting the slats; Fig. 8, a vertical section at the line 22 of Fig. 7; Fig. 9, section of Fig. 8, showing Slat-connection; Fig. 10, a vertical longitudinal section of aportion of the slatted panel, showingv the slats' closed; Fig. l1, a

similar view, the slats being fully opened andA Fig. 12, detail of shutter rabbetv-joints.

The shutter parts A are made of paper prepared by any approved process, and the panels or sections a a composing said parts are united by a flexible joint-hinge, b, of cloth or fabric, the strip of fabric being cnt, as shown, with tongues b in the detail, Fig. 6, two strips being glued one on each side of the same section, and the tongues of each strip lapping on opposite sides of the adjacent section, as shown in Fig. 3. These hinge-strips extend from top to bottom.

The jamb-pieces c c may be of different widths to accommodate the parts to different styles or patterns of windoW-jambs d d.

In applying the j amb-piece c to anarrow jamb, it is made equal in width to the distance of the face of the architrave-jamb from the first bead, whereby its hinge with the shutter part will be on the edge of the jamb, which permits the shutter to be folded back against the architrave, as shown in Fig. 4, while in deepset windows a narrow jamb-piece is used, permitting the shutter part to fold within the jamb-space, as in Fig. 5; or the jamb-pieces in certain constructions of windows may be fastened-directlyto the architrave,thus permitting ofthe use of inside shutters to Windows where the ordinary wooden shutters are entirely inapplicable.

Rabbets or rabbet-strips f f upon the parts at their point of fastening in the center line of the window, one upon each part A upon opposite sides, form a close joint, and prevent the parts from springing or warping longitudinally, as vshown in Fig. 12.

The shutters, when closed, are fastened by bolts g g to the sill, or by hooks h h at the middle joint, as usual. They are fastened back by cord and tassel i, or by any suitable means. No hinges'are necessary to the attachment of these shutters. The jamb-pieces may be fastened, by simple pins or screws 7c, in their proper places.

As before stated, a thin covering, r, Fig. 3, of paper or other material bearing a stamped orprinted ornamentation, covers the paper parts and completely hides the cloth or fabric hinges. The panels are slatted and the slats regulated to open and close in the following manner:

VReferring to Figs. 7, 10, and l1, the slats l are provided with pivot-pins m, which work in bearing-holes m', Fig. 8, in the stiles D,

which bearings fm are in a'cut-out portion, n, v

-c, adapted to be attached to deep or narrow of the stile. This cut-out portion is covered, after the pivots are arranged in place, by a face-strip, 0, Figs. 7, 8, 9, flush with the face of the stile and glued on. The slats are operated to open and close by a regulatingstrip, E, which is also attached to the slats by foldhinges p, of fabric, glued or fastened to the strip and the slats. rlhe fabric hinge in this case is not covered, but left free to move.

Each fabric hinge p is glued or fastened to the inner side of the regulating-strip E, andv to that side of the slat which is inward when closed, so as to make a close fold of the slats, and to prevent them from passing the point of full opening.

A shutter composed of paper is not so liable to be affected by shrinkage and expansion, and therefore is free from the disadvantages of binding or open joints. It is lighter than wood, and cheaper. It is capable of being attached to houses having windows of such construction as to render the attachment of wooden inside shutters practically impossible. It admits of every variety of painting or gilding, or ornamentation in set patterns ready for the trade, renewable at any time in the same manner that wallpaper is renewable. It permits the occupant of a cottage to have many varieties of ornament with regard to his shutters. It improves, particularly, the dwellings of the poorer classes, and contributes to their refinement by allowing them the exercise of a taste for elegance at little expense.

I claiml. A paper-shutter part for the inside of windows the panels whereof are joined by a fabric hinge.

2. Paper shutter parts constructed with j lpanels and jambpieces united by hinges of fabric.

3. Paper-shutter parts constructed with panels and jamb-pieces, and with a thin covering, which may bear panel imitations or ornaments.

4. In a paper-shutter part, the jamb-pieces jambs or to the architrave-jambs, substantially as described.

5. In combination with the pivoted slats of la paper shutter, the regulating-strip E and vfabric hinges p, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I.

have aiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM HIPKINS.

Witnesses D. B. SnuPsoN, H. W. SIMPsoN. 

